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January 13, 2021 – Posted in Opinion
by Lexey Burns, Editor-in-Chief
First, there’s a difference between online learning and remote delivery.
Online learning is a regular class that you would have taken online asynchronously, where students are given guidelines and are required to teach themselves the material. Remote delivery is either synchronous or asynchronous, but there are still lectures provided similar to an in-person class, just with the health of students and teachers as their number one priority. Remote delivery is as close to an in-person class that most students can get during the pandemic right now.
Many students were not happy with the announcement on remote delivery continuing into the Winter semester at Laurentian, myself being one of them. These zoom lectures feel optional (especially the ones at 8:30) and with multiple different online platforms being used, it’s hard to stay on track with approximately four to six c